Call for entries for the 2022 MISA Malawi Annual Media Awards

MISA Malawi invites interested paid up members to submit their outstanding published works for the 2022 MISA Malawi Annual Media Awards. The awards will be given out as part of 2022 World Press Freedom Day (WPFD) celebrations, scheduled for May 7, 2022 in Nkhatabay.

Note that the 2022 awards will include a new category named Standards and Quality Journalist of the Year Award. Sponsored by the Malawi Bureau of Standards, the new award will recognise print and electronic journalism that excellently captures issues of standardization and quality assurance of commodities and metrology and professionally uncovers issues that require the Bureau’s attention. The MBS award will run for three years. 

The 2022 Old Mutual Responsible Business Reporting award will recognise stories that champion partnerships to achieve the financial inclusion agenda.

The deadline for receiving individual entries is Thursday, March 31, 2022 and Friday, April 22, 2021 for the Raphael Tenthani Columnist of the Year and Media House of the Year Awards.

The awards committee will accept entries published or aired between 1st April, 2021 and 31st March, 2022.

MISA Malawi will recognize winners under the following awards:

1. Print and electronic

• Investigative Journalist of the Year Award

• Business and Economics Journalist of the Year Award

• Old Mutual Responsible Business Journalist of the Year Award

• Democracy and Good Governance Journalist of the Year Award

• Human Rights Journalist of the Year Award

• Red Ribbon/HIV Journalist of the Year Award

• Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Journalist of the Year Award

• Urban Water Development Journalist of the Year Award

• Reporting Medicines Supply Chain Journalist of the Year Award

• Health Research Journalist of the Year Award

• Health Governance Journalist of the Year Award

• Anti -Corruption Journalist of the Year Award

• Adult Learning and Education (ALE) Journalist of the Year Award

• Girl and Women’s Rights Journalist of the Year Award

• Green Journalist of the Year Award

• Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Journalist of the Year Award

• Standards and Quality Journalist of the Year Award

• ICT Journalist of the Year Award

2. Combined print and electronic

• Sports Journalist of the Year Award

• Photojournalist of the Year Award

• Raphael Tenthani Columnist of the Year Award

• Blogger of the Year Award

3. Electronic only

• Best Farm Radio Programme of the Year Award

• Talk Show Host of the Year Award

MISA Malawi will also recognise the following categories:

• Overall Winner Award

• Life-time Achiever Award

• Print Media House of the Year Award

• Electronic Media House of the Year Award: Radio

• Electronic Media House of the Year Award: Television

• Electronic Media House of the Year Award: Online

• Community Radio of the Year

MISA Malawi members will be required to vote/nominate their respective winners under Lifetime Achiever and Print and Electronic Media House of the Year Awards. Entries for Raphael Tenthani Columnist of the Year category should be accompanied by motivations and samples of the nominees’ published works.

Media houses are also free to nominate themselves for the Media House of the Year Award in line with the rules and regulations governing the awards in question.

The MISA Malawi Awards Committee will evaluate entries based on the following:

• Impact

• Consistency

• Courage

• Investigation

• Gender awareness

• Relevance

• Analysis

Entries should be sent or hand-delivered to the following address:

Secretary for the awards committee

MISA Malawi Secretariat

Mtolankhani House

Off-Lilongwe Kasiya Road

Acacia, Lilaga Community

P.O. Box 30463,

Lilongwe 3

For inquiries, please call the following numbers: +265 (0)1 754 310 or +265 (0) 999 327 311